README

These datasets accompany the publication: Seasonality of fruiting phenology, hunting behavior, and taste preferences in Madagascar’s Makira Protected Area.


Diet types are as follows:

             1              2              3              4              5              6 
  "Frugivores"    "Folivores"   "Fruit Bats" "Insectivores"   "Carnivores"    "Omnivores" 






FILES AND CONTENTS:



hunting_catch.csv

Hunting diaries catch data are contained in this file. The columns are as follows:

species - animal species
year, month - year and month 
mean_catch - average number of this species caught in that month per hunter
diet_type - diet type of the species, see above



hunting_effort.csv

This file summarizes the average hunting effort for each month, per hunter. This was calculated from hunter diaries by counting the number of animals caught in a trap over the number of times traps were caught, and normalizing for the number of hunters participating in the hunting diaries at the time. These catches were then summarized across the years of the study to ascertain an effort score for each month.



seasonal_taste_prefs.csv

This file contains results from interviews indicating in which season the respondents thought a given animal tastes best. Seasons correspond to two-month periods, where 1 = December-January, 2 = February-March, 3 = April-May; 4 = June-July; 5 = August-September; and 6 = October-November.

age.group - age category of the individuals surveyed
species - wild meat animal species
best_tasting_season - which of the six seasons the respondents said the animal tastes best in 
diet_type - diet type of the animal species



fruit_tree_phenology.csv

This file contains observations of fruit tree phenology.

species - tree species (Malagasy name)
date - date observation was taken
dbh 0 diameter at breast height in centimeters
coverage - proportion of the tree covered in fruit at the observation (from 0-1)

